What is Bertha going to do?

[Update - you can read the latest here] You may have heard lots in the news about ex-hurricane Bertha, such as this story in Monday's Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/11011901/Hurricane-Bertha-could-end-Britains-sizzling-summer.html or this just a few hours ago from Scotland Now http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weather-forecasters-warn-hurricane-bertha-3994389 Both stories were amongst the first to come up on a google search but a fair …

How the moon affects the weather

2013-14 Tractional Tidal Forces: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LxLCf6zXY4c Clive Best: I aim to demonstrate in this series of posts that ever changing gravitational tides influence the flow of the polar Jet Stream thereby changing weather patterns at high latitudes. Such effects should be included in global circulation models to improve medium range weather forecasting. Previously I described a proposal from Roberto Madrigali …

Piers in the Express – SHOCK WEATHER FORECAST: Hottest August in 300 YEARS on way as jet stream BOILS Britain

BRITAIN will roast in the hottest August EVER with temperatures set to hit an unbearable 100F within weeks. By: Nathan Rao Thu, July 31, 2014 Britain faces record temperatures as the heatwave is fuelled by the jet stream An "explosion" of unstable air high in the atmosphere has created an "unusually elongated” jet stream which is poised …